Imaginary Landscapes is a profile of visionary composer, artist and producer Brian Eno. It brings into focus Eno’s seemingly disparate work in sound, vision and light, and explores his music in visual terms, based on landscapes and images that have shaped his life as an artist.
John Cage is the subject of a new museum exhibition in Barcelona. The exhibit looks at Cage’s works in various media and his impact on all forms of contemporary art. The New Yorker’s Alex Ross shares his thoughts on the highlights of the exhibit – but also raises this conundrum: The great oddity of twentieth-century… Read More Why People Still Hate John Cage
The MoMA Store is carrying a droolworthy deluxe edition of British musician, producer and visual artist Brian Eno‘s Oblique Strategies cards. This is extra-rare fourth edition of Oblique Strategies. Thr fourth edition of the Oblique Strategies was produced in 1996. Unlike the 1975, 1978, and 1979 editions of the decks, this version was not commercially… Read More MoMA Offering $200 Rare Edition Of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies Cards
Free Music from Brian Eno: Fans of ambient music and Brian Eno will want to watch for a new album on the new Amazing Sounds label, Harmonia & Eno ’76 Remixes. The album features remixes of tracks from the classic album Tracks & Traces by Shackleton, Appleblim & Komonazmuk. It will be available on limited… Read More Harmonia & Eno ’76 Remix Album
Brian Eno has had a career as producer, musician, sonic innovator and experimental artist that spans four decades. He’s produced, arguably, the most important recordings by U2, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Robert Fripp, Devo and others. He also pioneered the genre of “ambient music.” More recently, Eno’s helped create “sonic-art” app Bloom and the video… Read More A Conversation With Brian Eno
Artscape – Brian Eno In Conversation 2009 features some great vintage footage of Eno, then goes on to look at the last 30 years of his work and his work curating for the Luminous Festival.
Ambient Music pioneer Brian Eno, along with musician/software designer Peter Chilvers, have released a new iPhone music app, Trope, that expands on ideas introduced with their previous generative music app, Bloom: Darker in tone, Trope immerses users in endlessly evolving soundscapes created by tracing abstract shapes onto the screen, varying the tone with each movement.… Read More New iPhone App By Brian Eno, Trope
In a Trouser Press interview from 1982, Brian Eno shared his thoughts on ambient music: Brian Eno On Ambient Music I like it as an ambiguous term. It gives me a certain latitude. It has two major meanings. One is the idea of music that allows you any listening position in relation to it. This… Read More Brian Eno’s Thoughts On Ambient Music
Air (App Store link) is a new generative audio-visual work that’s “like Music for Airports made endless,” according to ambient pioneer Brian Eno, “Which is how I always wanted it to be.” The iPhone music app was created by musician / software designer Peter Chilvers and Irish vocalist Sandra O’Neill. Based on concepts developed by… Read More Brian Eno’s New iPhone App “Like Music For Airports Made Endless”
In a Trouser Press interview from 1982, Brian Eno shared his thoughts on composing: Brian Eno On Composing I’m always starting pieces of work. It’s the only thing I do, really; these pieces don’t go anywhere. For some reason, one of them will touch something in me. I never understand why at the time. As… Read More Brian Eno On Composing
